Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-08-25
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON. AUG. 10. 1887.

From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON. AUG. 15, 1887.
The new police regulations and city
ordinances devised and put in force by
the district commissioners, are in full
swing in Washington and the result is
that the city is more like Goldsmith's
deserted village than ever. Summer
time in Washington is lonllness per-
sonified but this summer takes the lead
for being the dullcst known for many
Il year. The early adjournment of con-
gress in March brought about the early
departure from the city of the occu-
pants of the fine houses on the hand
some avenues, who after all are only
sojourners here, their interests, and
connections belonging in almost every
case to some other community. Now
the commissioners with their new laws
made by themselves, have reduced the
town to the appearance OF the enchan-
ted woods that led to the palace of the
sleeping beauty But there is no sleep
ing beauty in this case, unless it be the
president at Oak View, who still re-
mains there taking things very quietly.
The street cars of a city are its charac-
teristics, and its signs of activity, but
none are heard in Washington. The
bells are off all the horses, and the
street vendors of fruit and vegetables
are forbidded to cry their wares and
anxious housekeepers have to hang out
the window on the lookout for the ice
cart whose afternoon visit eagerly
looked for during the warm spell of
last month was her;laed heretofore by
the twinkling of the bells on the horses.
The commissioners could help the busi-
ness interests of the place vastly more
if they would exercise their surplus
energies, and misdirected zeal, in trying
to devise some means Of making the
capital city as attractive in summer as
it is in winter instead of forcing a set
OF arbitrary rules, which they AFRO
gantly call laws, upon an already
much enduring community. What we
need here is some sort of amusement
and diversion in the summer time.
Clean streets and beautiful parks are
not sufficiently inviting to induce
strangers to come and tarry with us.
We must have people on the streets and
in the parks. Instead of that the COM
missioners are drying away from the
town by these new ordinances, the
large class of people who constitute the
majority in all great cities. refer to
small dealers, who find it impossible tC
make living in Washington on ac.
count of the heavy tax put upon them
before they can ply their trades, and
the restrictions they meet with in try,
ing to carry on their business. Take il
all in all, the capital of the greatest
democracy on the earth has the most
autocratic government in the world
and all becuse congress that does not
want to be bothered with the affairs o
the district Of Columbia, there being
no citizen of the district entitled to Z;
vote, gives into the hands of these mel
power over 100000 people that th'
president Of the United States does moi
possess. There is but one hope for th'
downtrodden citizens of Washington
The commissioners have got plenty o
| rope, and they may hang themselves
and by their abuse of authority brin.
about change of or an improvement
in the present form of government.
The president will not leave Wash
ington until October it is authoritivel,
stated by his private Secretary, Col
Lamont. The reports that he was t,
go on fishing excursion with Sena
tor Kenna, and afterwards to fetcl
Mrs. Cleveland home from Massachu
sets. are incorrect. The president ha
had as his guests at Oak View, recent
/ ly, William l.. Scott, member of con
gress, from Erie, Pa, and ex-Senato
Allen e. Thurman of Ohio. MIR. Scott
it may be remembered, was at the tim
of Mr.. Manning's retirement from tn
cabinet, spoken OF as the probable sec
retarY Of the treasury. 1t is said tina
Mr.. Scott declined the position. EA
Senator Thurman has been in WASH
ington to argue an important railroa
case. He is in the best of health an
spirits and seems as vigorous as evel
AS soon as the contracts for tn
building of the new naval vessels ar
out, Secretary Whitney will start 70
Bar Harbor. Me. If the United State
naval feet commanded by Admir-;
Luce is still at Bar Harbor on the a
rival of the secretary, it is probabl
that the visitors at that resort will b
treated to some interesting naval exel
cises and review.
Secretary Bpyard has returned fror
his trip to the scasnore and was at hi
desk in the state department last weel
Last autumn, the president, move
perhaps by the advice of physician
and friends decided that he needed e,
ercise, and concluded that the sout
garden of the white house was suit;
BILE place to take it in. Accordingl
the gates of the southern grounds wei
kept locked from four o'clock in tt